There is a slight exploit in the Battle Tab when you are fighting enemy players. If you attack them, use an artifact, then close out their ship, they will stay there after you close out their ship and refresh the BT. This is very minor, but I thought I would bring it up.

Yes, it's only if you attack them will they disappear. I think it's meant to be like that.

you can disable them, click outside the box and itll close without refreshing.. just like with npcing, its not an exploit, its how the game recognizes what youre doing. since you cant do anything advantageous whilst having only the BT open, OH WELL

Well, my point is that you can repair yourself while having them there in your BT (yes, I know about the much easier multiple tabs exploit).

huh??? YOU CAN REPAIR WHILST ATTACKING THEM ANYWAYS!!!!.. WHAT ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS UNDERSTANDING??

theres this fancy button when your attacking, it says Use Other Artifacts
maybe you should try using that from time to time.
and i find multiple windows is only helpful for nulls, just leave your search bar filled with REST and youll have restorative artis waiting in the top 2 slots..

i really really wish people would learn how to play the game, before saying its broken.

Icarium, I know about Repair Nanodrones for crying out loud. What if you don't want to use them? Not all of us have an unlimited supply.

isn't it intended?

I pvp with 2 tabs (or maybe more)

1 tab for BT, 1 tab for Ship
whenever I ran out of hulls, I go back to Ship, repair, and continue my attack. If I run out of hull again in the middle of a fight and my timer is on cd, I use nanodrones instead.
I also toys with my scanning module to find laughables and to scan 'unscannable' ships - I prepare an uninstalled scanner to do that

Is this really an exploit or just what the game is intended to work?

well then you need to explain HOW its an exploit.. i would think having multiple tabs open to be more of an exploit for non nano repairs...